Wednesday, 10 February 2016

True "open source"

This should be the future of science: http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-pirate-bay-for-science -- a way to download every paper ever written, without paywalls etc. I was glad to see that you can get "Persecution Perpetuated", say, here (thanks to whoever donated it). In general, it seems that all you need to do is to add "sci-hub.io" to the url, so that
"http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/3/1339.full" becomes
"http://qje.oxfordjournals.org.sci-hub.io/content/127/3/1339.full".

The ethics are quite clear... I just hope they don't end up the way Napster did. 

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